Amyloid Binding Small Molecules Efficiently Block Sevi and Semen Mediated Enhancement of Hiv-1 Infection
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1 AMYLOID BINDING SMALL MOLECULES EFFICIENTLY BLOCK SEVI AND SEMEN MEDIATED ENHANCEMENT OF HIV-1 INFECTION Joanna S. Olsen, Caitlin Brown, Christina C. Capule, Mark Rubinshtein, Todd M. Doran, Rajesh K. Srivastava, Changyong Feng, Bradley L. Nilsson, Jerry Yang, and Stephen Dewhurst From the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Chemistry, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, CA 92093
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